Welcome to the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Chicago Chapter! We are a group of passionate researchers, engineers, practitioners, industry professionals, and academics who are interested in all things about technology in the vehicle to create connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles. We hold meetings of our chapter around 4 times a year in the Chicagoland area and invite speakers to talk about topics like Alvin Chin blockchain for vehicles, cloud and big data for connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, and shared mobility, just to name a few. You can check out our previous meetings that we had below.

The Chair for the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Chicago Chapter is Dr. Alvin Chin, who is a also the Chair of the IEEE Chicago Section. The IEEE Vehicular Technology Society, Chicago Chapter is part of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (https://vtsociety.org) and the VTS holds their flagship conference IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference twice a year. Last year, the fall edition of the conference was held in Chicago.

Please follow this page to learn about our past and upcoming events and if you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to email me at alvin.chin@ieee.org. Also, we are looking for others to volunteer with our chapter, and open positions that are available include Secretary, Treasurer and Young Professionals Chair.

Many thanks and I look forward to seeing you at one of the VTS Chicago meetings either in-person or online.

Alvin Chin
Chair, IEEE VTS Chicago

DISTRIBUTED INTEGRATED SENSING AND COMMUNICATIONS – IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture

Kumar Vijay Mishra, United States Army Research Laboratory

IEEE VTS Chicago is pleased to invite Kumar Vijay Mishra to give an IEEE VTS Distinguished Lecture virtually.

In this talk, we focus on the recent developments toward distributed integrated sensing and communications (ISAC). We consider a broad definition of coexistence, which covers ISAC, collaborative communications, and sensing with interference. Toward fully realizing the coexistence of the two systems, optimization of resources for both new/futuristic sensing and wireless communications modalities is crucial. These synergistic approaches that exploit the interplay between state sensing and communications are both driving factors and opportunities for many current signal processing and information-theoretic techniques. In addition, a large body of prior works considers colocated ISAC systems while distributed systems remain relatively unexamined. Building on the existing approaches, the tutorial focuses on highlighting emerging scenarios in collaborative and distributed ISAC, particularly at mm-Wave and THz frequencies, highly dynamic vehicular/automotive environments that would benefit from information exchange between the two systems. It presents the architectures and possible methodologies for mutually beneficial distributed co-existence and co-design, including sensor fusion and heterogeneously distributed radar and communications. The tutorial also considers recent developments such as the deployment of intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRS) in ISAC, 5G systems, passive internet-of-things, and ISAC secrecy rate optimization. This tutorial aims to draw the attention of the radar, communications, and signal processing communities toward an emerging area, which can benefit from the cross-fertilization of ideas in distributed systems.

Slides from the talk are available here: 2023_VTS_DL_Chicago presentation  

PDH certificate for attending the virtual meeting is available here:

VTS_Chicago_PDH_CERTIFICATE_07-21-23

Introduction slides are available here: IEEE VTS Chicago – July 2023 Intro slides

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HARDWARE RELIABILITY QUALIFICATION OF ROBO-TAXI

Fen Chen, GM Cruise

12 Aug 2021, 12:00 PM PDT (2:00 PM CDT) to 01:30 PM PDT (3:30 PM CDT)

IEEE VTS Chicago is pleased to be a co-sponsor of this event with IEEE VTS Silicon Valley on Hardware Reliability Qualification of Robo-Taxi.

Autonomous driving is another great paradigm shift in the 100-year history of the automobile industry; it will redefine the rules of this industry. The role of car OEMs likely will transform from a traditional car manufacturer to a Robo-taxi service business provider. Robo-taxi has the potentials to solve many traffic and transportation issues, such as accessibility, efficiency, convenience, cost, carbon emission, and especially safety. It is regarded as an inevitable trend full of opportunities and challenges. In this presentation, we will introduce our newly developed AV hardware qualification methodology to rigorously qualify AV modules/components, as well as some technical lessons learned during our qualifications.

Please see details and register for this event here:

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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: TOWARD RELIABLE AND SCALABLE VEHICLE-TO-EVERYTHING (V2X)

Prof. Lin Cai of University of Victoria

17 Jun 2020, 06:00 PM to 07:00 PM

“No great civilization has been built without some well-defined system of transportation.” Modern transportation today encounters great challenges in safety, mobility, environment, and space. Vehicle to Everything (V2X), the umbrella term including vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), vehicle to pedestrian (V2P), vehicle to cloud (V2C), vehicle to sensor (V2S), etc., will be a game changer for modern transportation. However, there are many research issues and challenges remaining unsolved and beckoning further investigation. In this talk, we first brief the reliability and scalability challenges of V2X system, and introduce some of our solutions. Hope they inspire more research efforts and advances, contributing to the new era of V2X.

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NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING AND VISUAL PLACE RECOGNITION FOR AUTONOMOUS DRIVING

Joint meeting with Computer Society. Watch the Zoom Recording

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CREATING A MARKETPLACE FOR DIGITAL MOBILITY AND TRANSPORTATION IN THE AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

Distributed Ledger Technology in Automotive

Joe Renz of New Mobility Lab See the slides

The digital transformation of mobility and transportation has far reaching implications for consumers, industry and the public sector. Mobility is critical to economic and social development and must therefore be accessible and affordable to everyone. Driverless vehicles promise a leap in productivity, but at the same time threaten the industrial base and related jobs in view of digital business models, automation and new forms of ownership. At the same time, the digital transformation promises a future where mobility is not only sustainable and zero emission, but shared and available on demand in a highly customized fashion. Such personalization of mobility services rely on data and the ability to translate such data into products and services that consumer’s value. Data has become the ultimate control point and is at the center of emerging business models. What are the future business models in this emerging ecosystem of mobility?
Distributed Ledger Technology promises a future where personal identities and data can be protected. At the same time, identities and trust protocols enable a true P2P sharing economy without impacting privacy. It may enable data sharing across value chain participants in a way that puts consumers and commons in control of data and how it may be shared (and in exchange for what). Ultimately, the Distributed Ledgers promise to power not only humans, but autonomous fleets that create a self-governing marketplace of mobility and transportation services.
Biography:
Jochen (Joe) is an Electronics Engineer from Stuttgart, Germany (Home of Mercedes, Bosch, Porsche, etc), and now resides in Chicago. After a 20-year corporate IT career at CA Technologies he co-founded New Mobility Lab in June 2016. Simply put, cars and IT are in his blood.
Joe understands the car as an important building block in the future of multi-modal mobility. However, much of disruptive innovation happens in the form of solutions around the car and in the broader mobility ecosystem – the System of Systems, where Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) play an instrumental role. Joe goes far beyond the car itself and takes a holistic view of the emerging smart mobility and transportation space aka New Mobility World which encompasses Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, E-Mobility, Urban Solutions, Mobility Services.
Joe advocates the opportunities DLT presents to data, mobility solutions but also to human kind in general.